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Hey Guys,
My Mac gets slower and slower, so I looked what kind of stuff I have on my Hard Drive. And thats what came up
I wonder why Backups take so much space... what kind of backups are these? and what is all that yellow "other" doing?
greatfull if you guys know what to do and sorry about my english
thomas
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.5)
You have Time Machine snapshots on the drive:
OS X Lion- About Time Machine's "local snapshots" on portable Macs
OS X Mountain Lion- About local snapshots
Time Machine Snapshots
Open the Terminal in the Utilities folder and enter or paste the appropriate command line. Press RETURN and enter your admin password when prompted. It will not be echoed. Press RETURN again.
To turn them ON: sudo tmutil enablelocal
To turn them OFF: sudo tmutil disablelocal
Note that turning them OFF will also delete all existing snapshots.
For more about snapshots see: OS X Mountain Lion- About local snapshots.
You have Time Machine snapshots on the drive:
OS X Lion- About Time Machine's "local snapshots" on portable Macs
OS X Mountain Lion- About local snapshots
Time Machine Snapshots
Open the Terminal in the Utilities folder and enter or paste the appropriate command line. Press RETURN and enter your admin password when prompted. It will not be echoed. Press RETURN again.
To turn them ON: sudo tmutil enablelocal
To turn them OFF: sudo tmutil disablelocal
Note that turning them OFF will also delete all existing snapshots.
For more about snapshots see: OS X Mountain Lion- About local snapshots.
As stated above that is the Local TM Snapshots which in my opinion are just a total waste of hard drive space. Use the terminal command to disable them.
Mac Pro with too much stuff on it
